Re: How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

The replacement for search on the task bar is having search in the start
menu. It's the same number of clicks away - just click or hit the windows
key and start typing your search.

One of the devs in the search team Brandon has a couple of tools and gadgets
available for download - I'm not sure they do exactly what you want but you
might find them interesting: http://brandontools.com/

> I've just spent the last few hours futilely trying to add the native
> 'Windows
> desktop search' to either my taskbar, or the sidebar as a gadget - but to
> no
> avail.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to provide this obvious piece of ergonomics
> &
> functionality?
>
> I'm VERY suprised that this isn't an 'easy' thing to do...
>
> Ben
>

Re: How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

Unfortunately still does not supply me with an answer!
I checked out http://brandontools.com/ , but there was nothing that helped
me there.

Any one else have any ideas?

Ben

"Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:

> The replacement for search on the task bar is having search in the start
> menu. It's the same number of clicks away - just click or hit the windows
> key and start typing your search.
>
> One of the devs in the search team Brandon has a couple of tools and gadgets
> available for download - I'm not sure they do exactly what you want but you
> might find them interesting: http://brandontools.com/
>
> Dave Wood
>
>
> "Ben Cadet" <Ben Cadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news760EE4C-BA8D-4259-A33E-36E74998A25B@xxxxxx

> > I've just spent the last few hours futilely trying to add the native
> > 'Windows
> > desktop search' to either my taskbar, or the sidebar as a gadget - but to
> > no
> > avail.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea how to provide this obvious piece of ergonomics
> > &
> > functionality?
> >
> > I'm VERY suprised that this isn't an 'easy' thing to do...
> >
> > Ben
> >

> Thanks for the reply, Dave
>
> Unfortunately still does not supply me with an answer!
> I checked out http://brandontools.com/ , but there was nothing that helped
> me there.
>
> Any one else have any ideas?
>
> Ben
>
> "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:
>

>> The replacement for search on the task bar is having search in the start
>> menu. It's the same number of clicks away - just click or hit the windows
>> key and start typing your search.
>>
>> One of the devs in the search team Brandon has a couple of tools and
>> gadgets
>> available for download - I'm not sure they do exactly what you want but
>> you
>> might find them interesting: http://brandontools.com/
>>
>> Dave Wood
>>
>>
>> "Ben Cadet" <Ben Cadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news760EE4C-BA8D-4259-A33E-36E74998A25B@xxxxxx

>> > I've just spent the last few hours futilely trying to add the native
>> > 'Windows
>> > desktop search' to either my taskbar, or the sidebar as a gadget - but
>> > to
>> > no
>> > avail.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any idea how to provide this obvious piece of
>> > ergonomics
>> > &
>> > functionality?
>> >
>> > I'm VERY suprised that this isn't an 'easy' thing to do...
>> >
>> > Ben
>> >

Re: How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

I think it would be more ergonomic and easier to use.
To be honest, Dave, I didn't think it would be that hard a thing to sort out.
I'm used to using this kind of search on other OSs, and if I recall
correctly, Google desktop has this kind of functionality - but I would rather
remain 'In House', so to speak, as my experiences from using google desktop a
few years ago showed it to be an awful system hog.
Ben

"Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:

> Can you explain what having search on the taskbar would add for you over the
> existing Start Menu search?
>
> Dave
>
> "Ben Cadet" <BenCadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ADD22BBE-D4F7-49C7-97DE-058156478B4D@xxxxxx

Re: How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

>I think it would be more ergonomic and easier to use.
> To be honest, Dave, I didn't think it would be that hard a thing to sort
> out.
> I'm used to using this kind of search on other OSs, and if I recall
> correctly, Google desktop has this kind of functionality - but I would
> rather
> remain 'In House', so to speak, as my experiences from using google
> desktop a
> few years ago showed it to be an awful system hog.
> Ben
>
>
> "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:
>

>> Can you explain what having search on the taskbar would add for you over
>> the
>> existing Start Menu search?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> "Ben Cadet" <BenCadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ADD22BBE-D4F7-49C7-97DE-058156478B4D@xxxxxx

Re: How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

> There's no way to do this built-in to Vista. I'm not aware of a third-party
> gadget to do this.
>
> "Ben Cadet" <BenCadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8AA1059F-34A9-4585-AC97-B68AEB175D96@xxxxxx

> >I think it would be more ergonomic and easier to use.
> > To be honest, Dave, I didn't think it would be that hard a thing to sort
> > out.
> > I'm used to using this kind of search on other OSs, and if I recall
> > correctly, Google desktop has this kind of functionality - but I would
> > rather
> > remain 'In House', so to speak, as my experiences from using google
> > desktop a
> > few years ago showed it to be an awful system hog.
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:
> >

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